Rice's Landing Historic District

Rice's Landing occupies a narrow river terrace, steep hillslope and upland ridgetop beside the Monongahela River in northeastern Greene County. Its vernacular buildings, mostly one and two stories, date from the Mid-Victorian to Craftsman periods. The town was founded in 1780 by John Rice, and after canalization brought Lock #6 in 1856, it served as a shipping point for goods bound for much of northeastern Greene County. Industrial sites include the W. A. Young Machine Shop, a preserved river-side plant whose foundry was added during the coal boom, and the Excelsior Pottery, where Isaac Hewitt, Jr. produced salt-glazed stoneware in the early 1870s. The Dilworth deep shaft mine, opened by the 1900s, shipped coal directly into barges, and its fan house survives. The district was listed for its well-preserved river port and coal-era character and for its cohesive architecture, which the nomination compares favorably with other Upper Monongahela towns that lost integrity to floods and later development.